There are a number of in-references to the classic dystopian book Brave New World (1932) about a perfected society where sex and reproduction had been eliminated. Cryogenically unfrozen police officer John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) and his partner Lenina Huxley (Sandra Bullock)

Perhaps one of the funniest moments is Sylvester Stallone’s meeting with revolutionary leader Dennis Leary where Leary suddenly turns around and reveals in perfect straight-face that what he is fighting for is the right to eat red meat, smoke, read Playboy and run naked through the streets if he wants – exactly the opposite of what a revolutionary is supposed to be in favour of rebelling.

The satire runs wall-to-wall – radio stations and piano bars plays jingles from 20th Century advertising commercials fast food joints have become the restaurants of the future serving up junk food as though it were gourmet dinners and perhaps in response to Arnie’s digs at him in Twins (1988) and Last Action Hero (1993), Sylvester Stallone throws in a sly joke about how the immigration laws were changed to allow Arnold Schwarzenegger (who at this point had yet to become the Governor of California) to become President (an idea that was being treated seriously a few years later). Demolition Man is an action film and its politics are arguably reactionary and libertarian but the surprise for a Sylvester Stallone film is that it emerges as an action film with rare intelligence and a considerable sense of humour.ĭemolition Man offers a wittily satiric vision of the future – one where current fads for Political Correctness have created a society that is so nice that it is dystopian.

With the name of Sylvester Stallone attached to an action vehicle, one has rarely come to expect anything other than mindless violence and red-blooded politics that approach the extremes of reactionary libertarianism.

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